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LA TIMES Apologizes FOR DIDDY REPORT
Investigation into article about rapper’s robbery and assault leads to paper’s admission
Editors at the Los Angeles Times newspaper have apologized after an internal probe of
documents used in a recent story on Tupac Shakur’s 1994 shooting proved the reports to be fakes. Writer Chuck Phillips received criticism from record label head Sean “Diddy” Combs after the article was published, suggesting that Combs knew of plans to attack rapper Shakur in 1994, two years before Shakur’s murder. The high-profile incident at New York’s Quad Recording Studios left Shakur briefly hospitalized, but it added to his legend as a tragic and defiant rap star. The Times wrote that Shakur was set up by Combs associates who wanted to send Shakur a message about perceived disses against Combs and his music label. The paper’s editor, Russ Stanton, says he ordered a review of the story after the investigative Web site The Smoking Gun suggested that FBI documents named as a source of information appear phony. “The bottom line is that the documents we relied on should not have been used,” Stanton says. Even Phillips, who initially defended his reporting, says he “got duped.” Combs has denied any connection to Shakur’s robbery and shooting.
Come on now, everybody knows the FBI tried to get rid of Pac and BIG the same way they did with the Panthers and so many others that they believed were "threats". But instead of getting rid of the problem they created such monsters we now know as SOULJAH BOY, D4L, THAT "AUNT JACKIE" KID and many others that I have neither the time nor energy to name.
Investigation into article about rapper’s robbery and assault leads to paper’s admission
Editors at the Los Angeles Times newspaper have apologized after an internal probe of
documents used in a recent story on Tupac Shakur’s 1994 shooting proved the reports to be fakes. Writer Chuck Phillips received criticism from record label head Sean “Diddy” Combs after the article was published, suggesting that Combs knew of plans to attack rapper Shakur in 1994, two years before Shakur’s murder. The high-profile incident at New York’s Quad Recording Studios left Shakur briefly hospitalized, but it added to his legend as a tragic and defiant rap star. The Times wrote that Shakur was set up by Combs associates who wanted to send Shakur a message about perceived disses against Combs and his music label. The paper’s editor, Russ Stanton, says he ordered a review of the story after the investigative Web site The Smoking Gun suggested that FBI documents named as a source of information appear phony. “The bottom line is that the documents we relied on should not have been used,” Stanton says. Even Phillips, who initially defended his reporting, says he “got duped.” Combs has denied any connection to Shakur’s robbery and shooting.Come on now, everybody knows the FBI tried to get rid of Pac and BIG the same way they did with the Panthers and so many others that they believed were "threats". But instead of getting rid of the problem they created such monsters we now know as SOULJAH BOY, D4L, THAT "AUNT JACKIE" KID and many others that I have neither the time nor energy to name.
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